This documentary traces the full evolutionary timeline of prehistoric creatures that shaped Australia long before humans. It explores how dinosaurs and megafauna developed in extreme isolation, ...

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Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large, ...

Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia had a more general diet than previously assumed, giving rise to new ideas about their survival and resilience to climate change, and the final extinction of ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia’s megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Renowned ...

Most are familiar with the T-rex, brachiosaurs and triceratops, made famous in toy stores and on the big screen around the world. But those are only three out of hundreds of species of dinosaurs ...

Fungal spores found in the dung of Pleistocene megafauna reveal that large animals in the Colombian Andes went extinct in two “waves” Shiny Mottlegill (Panaeolus semiovatus), a species of coprophilous ...

Welcome to prehistoric Australia, a place that was filled with dangerous and terrifying megafauna.

Officials discovered the remains of a giant ground sloth and other prehistoric animals near Lubbock while working on a new highway. The Texas Department of Transportation contracted an archeological ...

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A new season of Apple TV’s docuseries “Prehistoric Planet” follows mammals fighting to survive in shifting climate. The five-part season begins with “The Big Freeze,” one of the coldest periods of the ...